# Books, papers, videos, theses, notes, links etc.

• Dailymotion and YouTube collections of videos by Carmen Rovi Many are of surgery-related lectures (2012-)
• A note on characteristic classes: Euler, Stiefel-Whitney, Chern and Pontrjagin (2016)
• A construction of Seifert surfaces by differential geometry, Edinburgh Ph.D. thesis of Supreedee Dangskul (2015)
• E_\infty-Comodules and Topological Manifolds, Stony Brook Ph.D. thesis of Anibal Medina (2015)
• Some applications of algebraic surgery theory: 4-manifolds, triangular matrix rings and braids, Edinburgh Ph.D. thesis of Chris Palmer (2015)
• The signature modulo 8 of fibre bundles, Edinburgh Ph.D. thesis of Carmen Rovi (2015)
• Double L-theory Edinburgh Ph.D. thesis of Patrick Orson (2015)
• Algebraic K-Theory and Manifold Topology. Notes of Jacob Lurie's 2014 Harvard course.
• The hotel of algebraic surgery Bonn Ph.D. thesis of Philipp Kuehl (2014).
• Minicourse on Topological Manifolds by Dennis Sullivan and Anibal Medina (Stony Brook, December 2013 - January 2014)
Course description by Dennis
Video of Lecture 1/4 (Dennis, 18.12.2013)
Video of Lecture 2/4 (Anibal, 9.1.2014)
Video of Lecture 3/4 (Dennis, 16.1.2014)
Video of Lecture 4/4 (Anibal, 23.1.2014)
Background: The Poincare duality theorem and its converse Slides of two lectures by A.R. (Bochum, December 2011)
An intercontinental 4-part lecture series on the total surgery obstruction given by A.R. Part 1, Part 2 (Stony Brook, 18.4.2014), Part 3, Part 4 (Edinburgh, 2.5.2014)
• Homeomorphisms, homotopy equivalences and chain complexes Edinburgh Ph.D. thesis of Spiros Adams-Florou (2012). arXiv:1205.3024
• On the concordance orders of knots Edinburgh Ph.D. thesis of Julia Collins (2012). arXiv:1206.0669
• A second order algebraic knot concordance group Edinburgh Ph.D. thesis of Mark Powell (2011).
• The total surgery obstruction revisited by P.Kuehl, T.Macko and A.Mole arXiv:1104.50 (2011)
• The Manifold Atlas Project.
• Algebraic L-theory and surgery. Notes of Jacob Lurie's 2011 Harvard course.
• Scholarpedia article (2010) by S.P.Novikov on the Novikov conjecture.
• Norman Levitt (1943-2009) Post to the ALGTOP-L algebraic topology discussion forum, and text spoken at memorial service.
• Topics in geometric topology. Notes of Jacob Lurie's 2009 Harvard course.
• The topological rigidity of the torus, essay written by Alexandre Martin (a student at ENS, Paris) during a visit to Edinburgh February-June 2009. Slides of talk.
• Algebraic and geometric surgery Notes by Adam Mole of course given by A.R. (Muenster, 2008)
• Waldhausen's topology lecture notes (Bielefeld, 2005)
• On the signature of fibre bundles and absolute Whitehead torsion. Edinburgh Ph.D. thesis of Andrew Korzeniewski (2005)
• Splitting homotopy equivalences along codimension 1 submanifolds. Edinburgh Ph.D. thesis of Jeremy Brookman (2004)
• The algebraic theory of Kreck surgery. Edinburgh Ph.D. thesis of Joerg Sixt (2004)
Even-dimensional l-monoids and L-theory, Algebraic and Geometric Topology 7, 479-515 (2007)
• The surgery theoretic classification of high-dimensional smooth and piecewise linear simply-connected manifolds Harvard senior thesis of Jonathan Kelner (2002)
• The mapping torus (entry in Online Encyclopedia of Mathematics) (2002)
• Slice knots: Knot theory in dimension 4. Lecture notes of 2001 UCSD course of Peter Teichner, edited by Julia Collins and Mark Powell.
• Invariants of boundary link cobordism. Edinburgh Ph.D. thesis of Des Sheiham (2001).
• An introduction to algebraic surgery in Surveys on Surgery Theory, Vol. 2, Annals of Mathematics Studies 149, 81--163, Princeton (2001)
• Foundations of algebraic surgery Another (and shorter) introduction, which appeared in the Proceedings of the School on High-dimensional Manifold Topology, ICTP Trieste, 21 May - 8 June, 2001
• Fundamental domains of infinite cyclic covers. Edinburgh M.Phil thesis of Adam Hughes (2000)
• Cobordism and exotic spheres Harvard senior thesis of Joshua Plotkin (1999)
• A letter to Frank Connolly A letter written in April 1996, on the elements of order 4 in UNil_3(Z).
• Nil-groups and regularity An unpublished paper of Pierre Vogel, with an erratum for Theorem 5-4 (1990)
• John Frank Adams. 5 November 1930-7 January 1989 by I.M.James, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 36 (Dec., 1990), pp. 3-16
• An explicit projection An unpublished paper giving an explicit example of a f.g. projective module over a finite group ring which is not stably f.g. free. (1985)
• Proceedings of Conference on Algebraic and Geometric Topology, Rutgers, 1983 Springer Lecture Notes 1126, 318--419 (1985)
• A letter to Bruce Williams A letter written in December 1981, on the relationship between projective, free and simple L-groups.
• Z_2-homotopy theory by Michael Crabb, LMS Lecture Notes 44 (1980)
• Localization of spaces with respect to a class of maps by Pierre Vogel, Nantes notes (1978)
• Surgery on closed manifolds, Larry Taylor and Bruce Williams, Notre Dame notes (ca. 1977)
• Topology by J.F. Adams and A.R. Pears, survey in Use of mathematical literature, 217--228, Butterworths (1977)
• Varietes simpliciales d'homologie et varietes topologique metrisables by Takao Matumoto, Orsay Ph.D. thesis (1976)
• Proper surgery groups for non-compact manifolds of finite dimension Unpublished 1972 paper of Serge Maumary.
Proper surgery groups and Wall-Novikov groups, by Serge Maumary, Vol. III Proc. Algebraic K-theory,Battelle, Seattle, Springer Lecture Notes 343, 526--529 (1974)
• Notes of Quillen's 1973 MIT lecture course on algebraic K-theory
• Higher algebraic K-theory I. by Dan Quillen. Proc. Algebraic K-theory Battelle, Seattle Conference, Vol. I., Springer Lecture Notes 341, 85-147 (1973)
• Surgery on paracompact manifolds 1972 Berkeley Ph.d. thesis of Larry Taylor
• Surgery on simply-connected manifolds The classic book by W.Browder, originally published by Springer (1972)
• Recent Advances in Topological Manifolds. Notes of Andrew Casson's 1971 Cambridge Part III course. LATEX'ed from Andrew Ranicki's handwritten notes (1971).
• Geometric Topology, Part I. Localization, periodicity and Galois symmetry Dennis Sullivan's MIT notes (1970), K-Monograph 8, Springer (2005)
• Whitehead groups of generalized free products This is an important unpublished 1969 preprint of Friedhelm Waldhausen; although the splitting of the Whitehead group claimed here is somewhat wrong (the short exact sequence for Wh(A*_CB) does not split; the `stable basis' on page 5.7 does not exist) it is a readable introduction to the subsequently published papers in the Battelle 1972 Seattle proceedings, and the monumental 1978 Annals paper "The algebraic K-theory of generalized free products", which are certainly correct!
• Lectures on the theorem of Browder and Novikov and Siebenmann's thesis by M. Kervaire, Tata notes (1969)
• Piecewise Linear Topology The classic book by J.F.P.Hudson, originally published by Benjamin (1969)
• MANIFOLD magazine (1968-1980)
• Seminar notes on simply connected surgery by Peter Orlik, Institute for Advanced Study (1968).
• Proceedings of Conference on Algebraic Topology, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, 1968, including memorial to Victor Gugenheim.
• Lectures on polyhedral topology by J.Stallings (Tata, 1967).
• Le theoreme du h-cobordisme (Smale) Notes by Jean Cerf and Andre Gramain (Ecole Normale Superieure, 1968). Thanks to Shu Otsuka for the retyped version.
• Le fibre tangent Notes by Larry Siebenmann (Orsay, 1966)
• The Relation of Cobordism to K-Theories, by P.E.Conner and E.E.Floyd, Springer Lecture Notes 28 (1966)
• Introduction to topology, by E.C.Zeeman, notes (Warwick, 1966). Thanks to Shu Otsuka for the retyped version.
• The obstruction to finding a boundary for an open manifold of dimension greater than five
Larry Siebenmann's thesis (Princeton, 1965). Retyped LATEX version.
• Lectures on the h-cobordism theorem by J.Milnor, (Mathematical Notes 1, Princeton, 1965)
• Seminar on Combinatorial Topology by E.C.Zeeman. Chapters 1.-4. IHES (1963), 5.-8. Warwick(1966).
Notes of Warwick course (1966) (by Rainer Vogt).
• Topologia Differenziale Proceedings of CIME, Urbino conference (1962).
J.Cerf Invariants des paires d'espaces. Applications à la topologie differentielle.
A.Haefliger Varietes feuilletées.
M.Kervaire La methode de Pontryagin pour la classification des applications sur une sphere.
S.Smale Stable manifolds for differential equations and diffeomorphisms.
• John Henry Constantine Whitehead. 1904-1960 by M. H. A. Newman, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 7 (Nov., 1961), pp. 349-363.
• Differential Topology C.T.C.Wall's Part III course (Cambridge, 1960-1961). Retyped by Shu Otsuka (2011).
• Differentiable Manifolds Which Are Homotopy Spheres by J. Milnor, mimeo notes (Princeton, 1959)
• Higher inverse limits and homology theories by Z. Yeh, (Ph.D. thesis, Princeton, 1959)
• Differentiable Topology by J. Milnor, mimeo notes (Princeton, 1958).
Retyped version (2010) by Shu Otsuka (with some additional material).
• Lectures on Characteristic Classes by J. Milnor, mimeo notes (Princeton, 1957).
Basis for the Milnor-Stasheff book Characteristic classes (Annals Study, 1976).
• Proceedings of 1956 Algebraic Topology Symposium in Mexico.
• The birth of the Borel conjecture (Extract of letter from Borel to Serre, 2 May 1953)
• Sur une partition en cellules associee a une fonction sur une variete by Rene Thom, C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris 228, 973-975 (1949)
• Topologie Algebrique Paris, 1947.
• Vorlesungen über Topologie I: Flächentopologie by B. Kerekjarto (Springer 1923) :
zipped DJVU, PDF, readme by Larry Siebenmann.
The book (modulo the comments in the MacTutor biography) contains the first modern proof of the classification of surfaces.
The book includes on page 151 the celebrated picture of Bessel-Hagen, to whom there is a reference on page 267. Apparently there was a bet that Kerekjarto would put a reference to Bessel-Hagen in the book. A sad example of mathematical humour.
• Analisis situs combinatorio by Hermann Weyl, Revista Matematica Hispano-Americana 5, 390--432 (1923)
The signature of a 4k-dimensional manifold was first defined in this paper (on the last page).
The paper was written in Spanish and published in Mexico since at the time algebraic topology was regarded as a somewhat shameful activity, and Weyl did not want his colleagues in Zürich to know about his contributions to the subject!
Information from Beno Eckmann's lecture Is algebraic topology a respectable field? (Mathematical Survey Lectures, Springer, 2006).
• Boy's immersion of the real projective plane in 3-space.
The original article (W.Boy, Über die Curvatura integra und die Topologie geschlossener Flächen, Math. Ann. 57 (1903), 151-184). Obituary of Boy (1879-1914).
What is ... Boy's surface? (Rob Kirby, Notices of AMS 54 (2007), 1306-1307).
An embedding of a topologist in the Oberwolfach metal model of Boy's immersion made at the Mercedes-Benz factory in Stuttgart.
Bernard Morin, the blind French topologist, visited Oberwolfach shortly after the installation of the Boy's immersion model -- he walked around it, feeling its edges, and then declared that this was not the original Boy's immersion but its mirror image!
Cobordism of immersions by R.Wells (Topology 5, 281--294, 1966).
The cobordism group of immersed surfaces in $R3$ is isomorphic to the cyclic group $Z$8 of order 8.
Generalizations of the Kervaire invariant by E.H.Brown (Annals of Mathematics 95, 368--383, 1972).
Example 1.28 shows that the isomorphism is defined by the $Z$8-valued Kervaire invariant.
8 Boys bound Movie made by Tony Phillips, with supplementary material.
The movie illustrates Boy's immersion of the projective plane in $R3$, which generates the cobordism group, and how to bound 8 copies of it.
Note that 4 copies bound the immersion of the torus in $R3$ with nontrivial $Z$2-valued Kervaire invariant.